Iain Macwhirter
Political Columnist and Commentator at The Herald (Scotland)
Columnist,Times. Spectator. Author: "Disunited Kingdom". BBC TV/ radio presenter for over 25 years. Former Rector Edinburgh University.
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3 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Iain Macwhirter
If Reform fail to win the Hamilton, Larkhall & Stonehouse by-election on Thursday, it will not be for want of trying by the establishment parties. They have been giving Nigel Farage’s fringe party, which has only five MPs and even fewer policies, unprecedented publicity. The Reform candidate, councillor Ross Lambie, a defector from the Scottish Tories, is sounding chipper. “We can’t lose this week even if we don’t win,” he says tautologically.
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4 weeks ago |
spectator.co.uk | Iain Macwhirter
Here we go again. The Scottish parliament risks embarking on yet another exercise in legislative virtue signalling: the Labour MSP Monica Lennon’s emotively titled Ecocide Bill. The Scottish government is reportedly looking favourably on this legislation, which would make destroying the environment a criminal offence punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
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1 month ago |
spectator.com.au | Iain Macwhirter
If the Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar is sincere in wishing to deprive Nigel Farage of the ‘oxygen of publicity’, he’s got a funny way of going about it. In a vituperative interview on the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland today, he gave the Reform leader another blast of oxygen by offering a public debate on the eve of his visit to next week’s Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election.
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1 month ago |
spectator.co.uk | Iain Macwhirter
If the Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar is sincere in wishing to deprive Nigel Farage of the ‘oxygen of publicity’, he’s got a funny way about it. In a vituperative interview on the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland today, he gave the Reform leader another blast of oxygen by offering a public debate on the eve of his visit to next week’s Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election. This is publicity Reform couldn’t buy with any of the money it has so far devoted to a blitz on social media.
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1 month ago |
thetimes.com | Iain Macwhirter
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